When to recommend AMD CPUs
Forget about the Intel circlejerk for a few minutes and lets have a somewhat productive thread. So my first CPU was an AMD Phenom 2 x4 965 @ 4.0GHz. This was fine, but it was a small bottleneck for a 650tiB. I ended up switching to an i5-3330 from a BF sale, and I was getting almost twice the amount of FPS on most games (from 30 to 60). Now I assume the only AMD CPU's we recommend are the Athlon, 6300, 8350, and some APUs for lower power builds. When would it be smart to recommend one of these processors over a Pentium, i3, or lower priced locked i5?
TL;DR, AMD is far behind Intel both physically and economically, so recommending AMD is only mostly viable for workstations that rely on more than 2 cores (many threads, low workload), if the price/performance is better than Intel (mainly sales, combos, used), or if Zen actually brings them back in terms of price/performance and features. Otherwise, Intel is best for everything else not because of fanboyism, but because its the cold, honest truth.
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